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I need to return as i've never been on the Smiler or Wickerman! But this is sad to hear.

Well it is a uk wide problem. While in most of europe themeparks had a good season this year. Only the UK themeparks are stagnating and suffer an attendence loss. We are basicly seeing how Brexit and the resulting economic decline are affecting the themepark industry. The second problem is that Merlin dominates the UK market. Any huge investment will only draw guests away from their other properties. And attracting more guests from mainland europe? Why not investing directly in the mainland european parks. Why investing in Alton towers, if you could just invest in Heide park instead? I don't know if the rumored Universal park will change the situation, but the UK themepark industry needs any help it can get.

Woke up this morning to see that the boss left after 2 years. Went to towers last year and the place just doesn't feel the same any more which is a terrible shame. It's untidy, there is paint peeling everywhere etc and it just lacks that magic feel it used to have. The park feels unloved. It used to feel like it could stand toe to toe with other world class parks but it's feeling worse every year. I hope they can restore it to its former glory.

For over 20 something years, all you so call fans of theme parks have done nothing but slate and slag off Pleasure Beach. You have never wanted it to succeed. The park clearly has a different remit to your beloved Alton Towers and the likes. Significant money is being invested into the park over the next seasons - and this is apparent with the removal of Grand Prix, Bowladrome, the major refurb to Ice Blast, the works on River Caves and whatever else. This season has been pretty bad due to a number of reasons - such as ride down time, but also the weather has had a major part to play this year. Frankly to say can Pleasure Beach be saved is an absolute shit statement. Get a grip.

I know I’m biased but I want a power rangers theme park Fun fact there was going to be another Img theme park in Dubai with power rangers rides but I want it in Dubai parks

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Drench falls at BPB was brilliant. So many top memories from.the 90s of riding this. You always got soaked !!

I remember as a teenager is the 1980's - you could walk around the park and choose a ride or two each night for a full week and have a much better time, plus my mum would never go on most of the bigger rides so paying for a wristband to go on just the monorail and the Pleasure Beach Express isn't value for money. Bring back pay per ride and ticket books and let people walk around the park for free, because most of those did go in the amusement arcades and/or purchased food & drinks which surely put money in the coffers. By all means wristbands giving unlimited rides are a good idea, but stopping people being able to just visit and have a ride or more in the evenings after a good day on the beach and after dinner in your hotel has just prevented the park being as busy as it was

I got sick from all the strobes.

Number 2 for me having just come back from Efteling in the Netherlands, wonderful park

What flaws? This park is a masterpiece. Everything about it is a work of art. And you call it “flaws”? Huh?

Problem is your suggestions all cost money. If they're struggling that much even things like extending opening hours will cost too much in power and wages. Doomed unless someone with deep pockets buys it. What's Space Karen(Elon Musk) up to now? 😂

As soon as they started charging entry fee just to enter the now deserted park and selling wrist bands Blackpool has gone to ruin. The Pleasure Beach used to be packed out screams from rides and fun and laughter when free to enter so many refreshments sold and tickets bought for rides people wanted to ride. The greed killed the pleasure beach. Also guest houses we would use as we ended up staying over for a few nights while visiting the pleasure beach. Now we see guest houses boarded up as well as shops boarded up in ruins. I visited 3 times a year before the entry fee. I've never been back since the deluded greed started and so many I know from many areas won't pay travel costs just to get to Blackpool then pay crazy over priced entry fee and wrist bands image with hotel or guest house costs how much people would need to visit run down Blackpool absolutely crazy. Blackpool is mainly a ghost town since the greedy owners took those deluded ideas of charging to enter before even paying for rides. Ending free entry and books of tickets for rides we wanted to ride and replacing with wrist bands was always there demise. At the end of the day they don't listed so they can go further down hill as people won't travel and pay to enter with those crazy prices.

I enjoyed this year much better than last year. Really enjoyed the houses. This was a good year.

Eternal Bloodlines was too much of a sad ending ... Was awesome opening story two hero characters but then the Human gets killed by the Dracula Daughter 😅 😭🔥 It made for a confusing story because peo6were cheering for the vampire kills and then the guests need to walk past a crypt with the mourning Bride 😅

Imo the food was kind of a miss this year too. Few good things but the most, eh. And maybe it's just me but this year felt like there were just teenagers absolutely everywhere causing trouble too. Never had any issues with them in the past so not sure exactly what changed.

the original houses this year were so goofy and the movie houses were so boring. the streets were GARBAGE. The universal monsters house was awful. AWFUL horrible year.

Excellent video totally agree

Blackpool is grim

My favorite is Seusslanding, they really did a great job making that spot of the park, and it's very unique to see an attraction of Gisele's classic characters. And I love the theme of their catchy music, which I'd heard they made instruments out of stuff from a garage sale as an inspiration from all the instruments in Gisele's drawings and made their own Seuss music with it which suited ever so well. They even allowed Gisele's wife to experience the place herself. My favorite part of the place is the CaroSeussel, where you can ride colorful fish, elephant birds and all of Gisele's other creatures. But there's something I wish they'd consider, if they can, maybe they can add some new things to that spot of the park like how they did Jurassic World. Most importantly make a spot in Seusslanding for Horton the Elephant. Don't get me wrong, he's got a great statue on the CaroSeussel but I feel he's kind of left out. He's one of Gisele's best characters, he's been around before Sam I Am, the Grinch & even the Cat In The Hat. They made good possibilities with big creatures like dragons and dinosaurs so surely adding an elephant would be like a pup in the dog show if you know what I mean. What do you think?

Couldn't have put it better myself. I am sure they are set to self destruct. They refuse to listen to guests, lack common sense, and are just dictators talking down to everyone. Sorry BPB (YEs BPB! THAT is what you are and should be! BLACKPOOL Pleasure beach! Call yourself what you like, that is what everyone will call you! It is an honest no brainer to bring family walk around. If anything Free entry for non riders and you are quids in as more money to be spent IN park on food, sideshows, photo ops YES even with modern mobile phones! Old folk who used to ride, will come and reminisce over days gone (like me) and bring their modern family! and it passes from generation to generation. newcomers to blackpool will then visit the park, and perhaps buy tickets to ride. Honestly why is it they cannot see the obvious in this. Opening should go into the evening as well! If they are fed up with it, I bet Merlin would snap it up, but I question if they would maintain it as is, but at least it will be kept running. COME ON FAMILY! Get your act together! WE LOVE THE PARK, future kids will, you can do this!

Amanda Thompson killed the pleasure beach. It’s dead. 💀 Disrepair is off the charts, rust, corrosion, rotting wood on the coasters, simple staff members. It will be over soon sadly. Her dad must be turning in his grave what she’s done to that place.

I find it still funny that Disneyland paris still holds up despite the lack of investment. DLP is an interesting case study to judge the imagineering during the Bob Iger era. In scientific experiments you have often a control group and DLP is basicly the control park. Disney under Iger has brought many changes towards its themeparks. Some good some bad. But if we have to review Bob Igers legacy one day, then we can use DLP to judge Bob Igers influence towards the parks.

DCA is terrible. I used to like it more in 2012 before the terrible Marvel land, the loss of Tower and Soarin over CA, and the bad Pixar Pier. The park is now just a dumpster for whatever next IP they will stuff in it.

im a mix of both. I love the original houses because of the stories they tell, and they add to the hhn lore which im still learning about, but I also love the IP houses because some of them I know and enjoy stepping into that world and see it in person.

i agree that the original houses definitely are higher quality & more enjoyable than the IPs. don’t get me wrong, i LOVE my IPs, but i’ve found from my 10 years of going to the event that they’re given far more creative control over the originals, and because of this, they just absolutely stuff them full of passion, love, and as many little details as you can think of. my unmasking the horror tours, which i’ve only done last year and this year granted, just proved this point further; seeing with the lights on how much more details are in the originals and how much more grand they can be is just amazing. and this isn’t even including the immense, two-decade long universe & lore that universal creative has designed SPECIFICALLY FOR halloween horror nights

They should just call it Disney Adventure Park.

It's looking tired and needs a hell of a lot of Cash injection.

The whole ticket purchase is a joke, having to put a picture why why , then having to scan it every ride why , it's obvious that if you got a ticket to enter then its obvious you going on the rides, there's no discount for people who just want to walk in the park anymore so why have to scam every ride , it's a traditional park run in old traditional ways and they won't change stuck with old outdated ways so stubborn to change

They need to turn into a broad walk park. So simple.

I was JUST talking to someone about how I'm sad that magic kingdom is changing that area because moving water and natural looking spaces add so much to the homey and familiar feelings of a theme park vs. something that feels completely man made and sometimes uncomfortable to hang out in. (would you rather sit on the ground of galaxy's edge, or take a break around the pond in hollywood studios? Would you rather hang out and take a rest with a calming view at rivers of america or stand in the middle of every big walkway behind the castle where it's mostly concrete?)

Close it down then and use the area for something else. 😂

Because they are fun! 😆

Stop charging to walk round

I loved Noah’s Ark as a child and Steeplechase is my favourite ride of all time

For themeparks it is a good thing that Halloween events are so popular. The fall/autumn season tend to be less popular than then the summer season here in europe. I mean this time of the year is often rainy and cold. A Halloween event gives themeparks a chance to attract a lot of guest before they go into the winterpause.

I think what Blackpool needs is a new Pleasure Beech owner

Went yesterday 4th oct super day took kids out of school went on everything apart from tots rides most coasters 2/3 times. Cant believe big dipper is 101 years old go,s like the clappers vanhall was super, at one point im sure we was on fire 😂

Great video!!!

Fantastic video, and I've subbed :) I used to ADORE this place. It was my favourite childhood place, I went back in my teenaged years, I went there with my mates whilst at Uni, I even tried to get there every year in my 20s... but I went there two weeks ago and I have to say, the whole place just felt off. First of all, it's a bloody fortune. £50 on the door. £18 to park. This is just insane money for a family of four. You could book an all-inclusive to Benidorm for cheaper! You make the point very well in this video - attractions have been closed, and just left to rot. Where was the sense in shutting Noah's Ark, River Caves, Wild Mouse and the Grand Prix if you're not going to replace them with anything? Maybe there were structural issues with the Grand Prix, I dunno, but it's just a massive, empty ride that could easily be drawing a crowd. It always did. With the exception of Icon, I found myself walking round feeling sad tbh, wishing for the Park of my childhood, and the rides we have lost, to come back. I know that things need to change and grow, and I'm not against it, but it seems that the Park has become almost bitter at it's previous reputation. It desperately wants to be a Merlin park, and seems to have forgotten what made it so charming in the first place. Plus, my visit was made worse by Valhalla being shut for most of the day (great investment to refurb that, clearly), and them now introducing fast pass options for rides simply not built to handle it. Queues that should have taken half the time now take far longer as a result, and it just wasn't as fun. We were there 7 hours, and got on 5 rides. No joke. I also agree about some of the commentators below in their notice of the behaviour of the CEO. Getting into twitter spats with your customers when you've clearly had a shitty day is just not good business. What's more, it shows a pretty nasty attitude in general, and an unwillingness to think you're ever in the wrong. Amanda Thompson has not been a disaster for the Park. Far from it. Some of her decisions have been very good, and probably kept the place open as it entered the modern era. Maybe it couldn't survive as it was 20 years ago, I dunno. But something is different about the Pleasure Beach now, and it does make me sad. Ah well.

Oh no love a bit of pleasure beach . If Amanda sorts out rides and payment and even season tickets instead of building a new hotel

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We do a lot of theme parks and if BPB wants charge a premium price, it needs to be run like a premium park. - don't have staggered opening times for rides on weekends - don't require guests to scan their tickets on entry to each ride... We've paid for entry to the park - allow guests to bring in their own food such as sandwiches (although props for having a burger king on site at least... Merlin could learn here) - better integrate the hotels with the park. Why prevent hotel guests from using the hotel exit... It makes it easy for guests to leave the area and not spend more money in the hotels - have a sensible annual pass price... Making the pass more expensive than a Merlin annual pass is weird - don't insist guests can only have paid photos of characters and don't actively prevent guests taking their own photos. - provide a better family offering. Theres very little for kids below 1.2m and the ticket price for little ones is horrendous value for money. Our youngest has outgrown all the nickelodeon rides and until he is 1.2m and can go on a decent number of coasters, we won't be going back.

I fell out with PB when they gutted the old log flume in the esrly 00s

It doesn’t need a walk around pass . No other similar amusement park does this . On the day prices are to get you do it advance . It’s deliberate and to assist the business . Their model is just fine

I've lived in Blackpool since the early 70's. in my opinion it all started to go downhill when they started charging for entry. During the 70's and 80's it was free to walk in and that's how it should have stayed.

Personally, I think what’s going to happen is, Amanda is going to end up giving/letting someone else in the family run in the park side of things, and that will be a thing that turns all around.

even though hero is terrible, there are more than one flying coasters in the uk

Level all of the surrounding area, Blackpool is thee biggest toilet in the north of England, then and only then would this hell hole be worth a visit.

We went last Sunday and to say we were disappointed was an understatement. Loads of rides were closed, Avalanche only had one train running even though the queues were the longest for that rides and the general maintenance of the rides is very very poor. We normally go every year but can honestly say i don’t think we will back anytime soon. I was going to put a complaint in but thought there would be no point as their reply wouldn’t be to my satisfaction.